Evendays

I just finished writing and sending out our email ministry newsletter. I find this a difficult task and it often gets put off a week or two or three until it becomes abscessed and then it has to be pulled, I mean written up, before people think we’re dead.
We used to send everything by regular [...]

Having your Sunday worship in a retirement home brings up some very important yes-or-no / black-or-white theological questions. I mean, they are either you do or you don’t. No in-betweens:

Should you wake someone up to give them the Lord’s Supper?
Is it acceptable to say: “Please sit and sing the invitation song”?*
Should you put on [...]

Monday after Easter (Lundi de Pâques) is always a holiday here. It’s just like Good Friday (Vendredi Saint). All the shops are closed. You’re not supposed to work in the yard, for it’s a time for rest, reading, thinking, family, skiing…
Snow fell on Friday, Saturday night, Sunday and Monday. It’s one of the problems of [...]

Chantal Sébire was only 52 years old when she was found dead in her home on Wednesday, just hours after French courts refused her request for doctor assisted euthanasia. Talk had been that she’d come to Switzerland to end her life, for assisted suicide, if certain criteria are met, is legal here.
Ms Sébire was horribly [...]

18 years ago today, early on a Sunday morning, Daughter broke through into the light bringing sunshine to our lives.
Girl, we love you. And your faith, commitment and perseverance, inward and outward beauty, along with many other qualities, have made it easy to be your parents.
Happy Birthday…

Wife and I ran a 15K on Saturday near Bern (Kerzers). Fantastic race weather with temps in the low 60’s. I was shooting for just-under-five-minute kilometers, hoping to finish in 1:13. It’s a tough race with 150 feet of climbing in the first kilometer, followed by level then some downhill, then very steep uphill on [...]

We stuffed ourselves on desserts last Wednesday afternoon. I normally hate mingling, but there was the promise of sweets and we gave it a shot and came out winners. Big time.
There was fruit of all kinds. There were three different kinds of mousse (raspberry, chocolate and white chocolate) and two or three cakes that had [...]

I have trouble knowing what is in my control and what isn’t. Sure, in a sense, nothing is under my control. Plans for the future, even what we’ll do tomorrow, are but penciled-in dates, and can be erased, changed or forgotten in a literal lack-of heartbeat.
Because of the above, when faced with a challenge, I [...]

I would love to be part of a big local church. Especially a faithful church that sings with all their heart. But, there is an advantage in being small: We are mobile. Last week we cancelled services and went to the Geneva church retreat that took place here in Lausanne. Not a logistical problem. Everyone [...]

As I write this post, "My Yahoo" tells me that a US dollar buys 1.03 Swiss Francs, meaning the dollar purchases 18% less than 2007’s average exchange rate (not counting inflation…)
Unfortunately, I’ve got to take a check to the bank this week, and waiting doesn’t seem to make it much better.
So today a gallon of [...]